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Barack Obama: I didn’t expect . . .
“I certainly didn’t expect to find myself in this position a year ago.” – Barack Obama. “This position” being running for the President of the United States.
If you don’t expect to find yourself in this position, don’t expect to find yourself in the White House either. He sounds like a wuss. I’m not trying to be mean to him, but this statement would sound wussy no matter whose mouth it came out of. In this case, it was Barack Obama’s mouth. Nobody wants a wuss in the White House.
I’ll give him props on this though; his video is the only one I’ve seen that I could embed into my blog directly from his site. YouTube style. You know, that one video company that used embeddable video to help it grow like a weed and win the video race to a $1.6 billion buyout. What a web2.0 ninja. Nicely done Obama. Nicely done.
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